There is a misconception or notion about early 70s Tamil Film Music. What is that?
Whenever TFM discussion comes up people start with Golden 60s and talk more about Enchanting 80's which started late 70s. According to many there was a vacuum in early 70s, say 70 to 75 for which they bring another angle of Hindi Film Music has hijacked Tamil Music listeners. This is agreeable to some extent, only about the HFM gaining ground in TN, but largely this argument is not true. Often it crossed my mind and few discussions in my close circle like rsgiri @ipammal has created curiosity in me to go back to 70 to 75 and reminisce it.
This thread, as I always stand to claim not to compare or equate anyone, to bring out what happened in TFM, was it so poor as it has been painted all over. Myself and rsgiri wanted to do this part of our talk show but somehow it hasn't happened. We did a small episode on early 70s, of course not in detail. You can have a look at that episode here
As I mentioned earlier about the biggest transition of TFM happened late 70s / early 80s and to substantiate though most of them know, the same can be seen in our first episode.
The above two episodes will give an idea while you go through this series (though shamelessly the above were self plugins :-) )
With this thought of looking back the Tamil Film Music scene from 1970 to 1975. This is not to prove someone wrong or right but to bring in lime light music came during those period and it was healthy not so bad as its been painted, which is a sweeping statement.
While this crossed my mind and when I shared with my closed music circle, without batting an eyelid and uninhibited blessings came from my learned friends like G Ragavan, Veeba etc.
Lets move on this and thanking you all for your support all now on reading my blog 🙏
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